Paras Paras — Documenting Balinese hospitality culture.raditmahindro.medium.com After three years of leisurely ongoing archiving process, Paras website is finally online. Some words of wisdom below: Paras shared information in Bahasa Indonesia and broken English which is put together based on hard facts with little or no opinion attached to them; they are based on…

Claus Sendlinger is a perpetual transformer who understands the catalysing effect of trends in the travel and design markets on other industries and society as a whole. He is a German native and global nomad who has created a culturally sophisticated network of artists, architects, designers, hoteliers, journalists, and like-minded…

The traffic in Bali is slowly becoming bad (again). At first, traffic jam seems like a huge problem in Bali because it is visible to our naked eyes. But rather than just complaining about this, what about coming up with an idea! To start this train of thoughts, I will…

Songs about hotel / hotel room with interesting lyrics about hotel business, guest quirks, hope & prayers, regrets, love affairs, and other hotel life stories. Note: Heartbreak Hotel and Hotel California are not included here because they are too famous… Indo Hotel Lounge, a Spotify Playlist 80s and faux 80s Indonesian pop music for a dodgy motel that used-to-be an upscale city hotel.raditmahindro.medium.com

Music videos shot and / or produced in Bali island.

There are different stories about which is the first hotel in Bali. Some friends mentioned a legendary hotel in Singaraja was the first one, but no one knows the name, and lack of documentation effectively makes it lost in obscurity. Bali Hotel, built by East Indies’ Koninklijke Paketvaart-Maatschappij in 1928…

For over five decades, since the 70s, Ian Schrager has been behind some of the world’s most renowned and well-designed places to sleep, drink, and dance, dating back to the iconic Studio 54, which launched a new era of sophisticated hedonism, mixing celebrity glitz with the outlandish underground. He then…

After completing the eight-part story about the history of Balinese hotel architecture, I realised that I missed a very important piece: a story about Indonesian designers (architects, interior designers, you name it). Though their influences are deeply appreciated in each part of the article, I think it’s essential for us…

Orient Express (now Belmond). Fairmont. InterContinental. Le Méridien. Swissotel. Okura Nikko. All major players in the modern hospitality sector, and all are distinctive, globe-spanning hotel chains with its own identity and slew of loyal guests. Yet they all have the same, intriguing origin story: before becoming global brands they were…